From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:52:18 +0100 (BST) Received: from ditditdahdahdah-dahditditditdit.dl5rb.org.uk ([217.169.26.26]:49071 "EHLO ditditdahdahdah-dahdahdahditdit.dl5rb.org.uk") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20153738AbYI0Xvn (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:51:43 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by ditditdahdahdah-dahdahdahditdit.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m8RNpeKL006923; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:51:40 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m8RNpd9i006921; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:51:39 +0100 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:51:39 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Sergei Shtylyov , bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE: Fix platform device registration in Swarm IDE driver Message-ID: <20080927235138.GA6802@linux-mips.org> References: <20080922122853.GA15210@linux-mips.org> <48DA1F9D.6000501@ru.mvista.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 20652 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 02:52:07PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > Platform device in the driver itself? Interesting... :-) > > Better than nothing for platforms which did not have platform > initialisation at all. Some driver subsystems do not support > non-driver-model devices at all or anymore. Historically registration of the device file in the driver itself wasn't uncommon before it turned out to be not such a great idea. I hope this was the last of the affected MIPS-specific drivers. Ralf